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The new iPhone fingerprint sensor is a nice piece of technology, but what is Apple’s contingency plan when it gets hacked? One might easily imagine lifting fingerprints from say, a beer mug, and then 3D fabbing a little finger cot that pulses with some of that mysterious “essence of life” that the sensor requires. How long till the sensor is cracked?

A new password encryption method from RSA would decrease the chances of security break-ins by hosting password data in multiple locations while ensuring that it couldn’t be easily combined into password values.

As we transition from a plastic and paper economy into an invisible one where transactions are made via cell phone, credit card companies are desperately clinging to relevancy with a new slate of computerized pimped-out plastic from the future. Here’s a look at two notable attempts.